Amazon EC2 in Europe
Amazon: Developers and businesses can now run their Amazon EC2 instances in the EU; http://is.gd/aYlS
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Gerrit Eicker
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Good OS
Cloud is a browser operating system that combines beautiful design with sophisticated technologies; http://is.gd/aRz8
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Amazon’s CloudFront
Amazon‘s CloudFront is a web service for content delivery, integrating with other Amazon Web Services; http://is.gd/7WyU
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Gerrit Eicker
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Gerrit Eicker
TR: “Amazon has become a major player in cloud computing in recent years. Many Web startups have come to rely on its pay-as-you-go hosting and computing services rather than investing in costly and complex infrastructure of their own. The newest offering from Amazon Web Services, called Cloudfront, may provide insight into Amazon’s long-term business model. This new product offers companies that are already hooked on Amazon storage and processing the ability to distribute their content and thus make themselves more stable and reliable.”
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Open-source Cloud-computing Tools
Naone, TR: “Open-source cloud-computing tools could give companies greater flexibility”; http://is.gd/6tqi
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Ballmer: Client Software is Needed
Ballmer: Client software is needed to take full advantage of the hardware on devices; http://is.gd/53g3
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Azure: Microsoft’s Cloud
Microsoft declared a third era of operating systems: Azure names its (pretty late) cloud plans; http://is.gd/4Xqj
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Winer: “I was hoping Microsoft would hit the home run, but it seems not. Why wouldn’t the Windows company just offer Windows in the cloud – nothing more and nothing less? The marketing people seem to have figured it out, they call the new offering Windows Azure, but what does it have to do with Windows other than sharing a brand? I don’t know. … Looks like I’m going to bet on Amazon.”
RWW: “Earlier in the day I’d asked Daz Wilkin, of Microsoft’s platform group, how Microsoft Azure compares to Amazon’s cloud offerings. Wilkin stated that Amazon’s system can be thought of as an ’empty vessal’, because developers basically pour all their software and effort into Amazon’s system. Microsoft Azure on the other hand, according to Wilkin, is a ‘compute fabric’ – the developer can focus on building the business logic and then scaling the platform to the demand. Azure takes away the ‘lower level complexities’, according to Wilkin.”
Handelsblatt: “Microsoft reagiert mit dem massiven Einstieg ins ‘Cloud Computing’ auch auf die Bedrohung seiner Geschäftsfelder durch Wettbewerber wie Google, Amazon, SAP, IBM und Salesforce.com. Sie bieten bereits Software via Internet an oder lassen Unternehmen ihre riesige Datenzentren online nutzen. – Kunden von Microsoft dringen seit langem auf mehr Öffnung hin zum Web. Für den Softwareriesen drohen dabei große Gefahren: Der US- Konzern muss seine nach wie vor wichtigsten Ertragsbringer, die Programme Windows und Office vor zum Teil sogar kostenlosen Konkurrenzangeboten via Internet schützen.”
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EC2 Leaves Beta Stage
Amazon‘s EC2 is now in full production, including a beta form of Microsoft Windows; http://is.gd/4F8u
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The iPhone is Nothing Without MobileMe
The iPhone is nothing without MobileMe: There’ll be a lot of add-ons in future. This combination is perfect marketing.
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Gerrit Eicker
Three more predictions: 1. The App Store will exceed iPhone profits. 2. MobileMe will exceed App Store profits. 3. Competition is not about hardware or software (apps) but about coherent integration of information (e.g. pushing data not databases).
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Amazon Clouds Microsoft Software
Microsoft‘s business software will soon be another option on Amazon‘s EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud); http://is.gd/3vFO
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Intelligent Cloud
Spector: “The intelligent cloud will generate many surprising and significant benefits to mankind”; http://is.gd/2NMd
RWW: “CloudFront appears to have answered concerns about both cost and reliability for smaller organizations. The service leverages the same Amazon infrastructure that has made S3 such a popular solution – with eight edge locations in the US alone – and the pricing seems to fall in line with the affordable S3 offering, as well. … To take advantage of the new service, Amazon users can save their objects to an S3 ‘bucket’ and then register that bucket with CloudFront. That makes those objects accessible via a simple API call.”